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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Who Makes Political Decisions in the [u]nited States?

For
the most part it is not you, dear voter.As with most other countries with large populations and democratic political
systems, the power lies with oligarchs of some sort:government bureaucrats, corporate officials,
and so on.

If
one thinks about it, what transpired in the last week of October is the closest
that the US has ever come to a ‘Second American Revolution’ and it’s proof that
there are indeed ‘friendly’ and patriotic elements in the “deep state” that are
willing to stand with the people in opposing the corrupt machinations of their
ruling elite superiors in The Establishment. Americans can’t help but take note
that something totally unusual is happening and that all is not right in the
corridors of power. Never before has a branch of the “deep state” so openly
rebelled against the ruling government, and the average citizen is waking up to
the frightening prospect that their own “deep state” might be just as divided
and on the brink of war with itself as are those in the ‘undemocratic
dictatorships’ (or so the weaponized Mainstream Media makes them out to be)
that the US routinely destabilizes and tries to overthrow. The parallels are
remarkable and the foreboding sense of fear that they instill isn’t lost on
many.

If
the upcoming vote isn’t conducted in the ‘free and fair’ manner that Americans
expect it to be, then the “deep state” ‘saviors’ will attempt to peacefully
carry out their ‘Second American Revolution’ behind the scenes in dealing with
this crisis, but faced with insurmountable institutional resistance from their
elite Clinton-co-opted superiors, they might go for the ‘nuclear option’ and
leak all of the evidence that they have about this plot to the media and thus
prompt the American People to take the ‘Second American Revolution’ from the
shadows to the streets. This could predictably result in a scale of violence
and far-reaching turmoil that sets into motion a chain reaction that’s utterly
impossible to accurately forecast. The ‘Second American Revolution’ could
either be pulled off peacefully at the polls and behind the scenes by the
facilitative “deep state” ‘saviors’, or riotously in the streets with
unpredictable bedlam. Nevertheless, it’s a certainty that the ‘Second American
Revolution’ will play out in one way or another, but it’s just a question of
which of the two will ultimately be victorious, and whether that will be
Trump’s form of the people conquering The Establishment or Hillary’s one of The
Establishment conquering the people.

According to top psychologist Robert Epstein, the power of Google’s
algorithm to manipulate public opinion is so strong that it can influence up to
10 million undecided voters, ensuring a victory for Hillary Clinton.

After several years of research involving more than
10,000 people in 39 countries, Epstein concluded that Google has “the power to
control elections” and that by favoring one candidate over another in some
demographics up to 80 percent of undecided voters can be easily manipulated.

. . .

Epstein also noted that Facebook has the power to
shift up to 600,000 voters on election day by simply sending out targeted
reminders to Hillary Clinton supporters telling them to vote, while not sending
out the same reminder to Trump supporters.

. . .

“Google’s algorithm has probably been determining
the outcomes of close elections around the world for many years, probably
actually controlling the winner in as many as 25 percent of the national
elections of the world,” warns Epstein, adding that Google’s power was
“unprecedented in human history” and constitutes a dangerous “threat to
democracy” because it has no competitor and is automatically trusted more than
any newspaper, magazine or television station.

Thus,
while voting is often portrayed as the best way to protect one’s interests
against over-bearing rulers, it is in reality a very weak weapon.If this is the kind of system you want to
live under, by all means keep trusting in the parchment idol of the u. S. constitution.

But
there is more going on today than elections, thankfully.Rather than putting all our trust in Trump,
Hillary, senators, and the like, we can, and ought to, turn to the Holy Archangels
Gabriel and Michael and all the holy bodiless powers of Heaven, who are
commemorated today (8 Nov.), for their help.

Here
is a prayer that Southerners can offer to the Holy Archangel Michael:

Archangel Michael.
Icon. Andrei Rublev

O Holy and Great Archangel of God Michael, who
standest, as the first of the Angels, before the ineffable and
super-substantial Trinity; who art placed as a watcher and keeper over the
human race; who hast with thine armies crushed the head of the proud Lucifer in
the heavens and brought forever to shame his wickedness and treachery on earth!

To
thee we have recourse in faith, and thee we entreat with love: be thou an
indestructible shield and firm rampart for the holy Church and the Orthodox
Christians, guarding them by the lightning power of thy sword from all enemies
visible and invisible.

Be
thou a guardian Angel, a wise counsellor and companion of the Christian people,
bringing them enlightenment, strength, joy, peace and consolation.

Be
thou a leader and a companion in battle to those who strive for the Orthodox
Faith, so that all who fight against us may know that God and His holy Angels
are with us.

Forsake
us not, O Archangel of God, with thy help and
protection, who today glorify thy holy name: for behold, even if we are have
sinned greatly, nevertheless we would not perish in our misdeeds, but rather
turn to the Lord and be enlivened by Him unto good works.

Illumine
our minds with the light of God, which ever shineth on thy lightning-like brow,
that we may come to understand what the good and perfect will of God for us is,
and know all that we must do, and all that we must despise and shun.

Strengthen,
by the Lord’s grace, our weak will and infirm intention, so that, confirmed in
the law of the Lord, we may cease to be cast about by worldly thoughts and
lusts of the flesh, or like thoughtless children to be drawn by the perishing
glamour of this world, lest by corruptible and earthly things we foolishly
forget the eternal and the heavenly.

And
above all these things, ask for us from on high the spirit of true repentance,
unfeigned sorrow before God, and contrition for our sins, so that we may spend
the days that remain of this passing life, not in pleasing ourselves and
serving our passions, but rather in effacing the evils we have committed, by
the tears of faith and heartfelt contrition, by striving for purity and the
holy works of mercy.

And
when the time of our demise shall approach, and of our liberation from this
body of clay, leave us not, O Archangel of God, without defense against the
spirits of evil under heaven, who surround us to close off the ascent on high
for human souls; so that, guarded by thee, without stumbling we may attain unto
those glorious habitations of Paradise, where there is neither sadness nor
sighing, but life without end, and may be granted to see the light-filled Face
of our all-good Lord and Master, falling with tears at His feet, crying out in
joy and gladness:

Glory
to Thee, our most dear Redeemer, Who for Thy great love toward us unworthy ones
hast seen fit to send Thine Angel as a minister of our salvation.